Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-07-30

10 the bargain. The wealth of CroeSus,
and of all the Stewards, and of all the
Barings, and all the Rothschilds is only
a poor, miserable SHILLING compared
with the eternal fortunes that Christ
offers you to-day. In the far east
there was Il king who used once a year
to get on a scales, while on the other
side the scales were placed gold. and
silver, and gems; indeed, enough were
placed there to balance the king; then,
at the close of the weighing, all those
treasures were thrown among the
populace: But Christ to-day steps on
one side the scales, and on the other
side are all the treasures of the uni
verse, ard He says: "All are yours
all height, all depth, all length. all
eternity; all are yours We don't
appreciate the promises OF
ii GOSPEL
When an aged clergyman was dying
a man very eminent in the church,
! young theological student stood by his
side. and the aged man looked up and
said to him: Cant you give me some
comfort in my dying hourP" NO"
said the young man; Il can't talk to
you on this subject; you know all about
| it, and have known it SO long"
well" said the dying man, 'just re-
cite me some promises" The young
man thought a moment, and he came
to this promise: 1.-The blood Of Jesus
Christ cleanseth from all SIM and the
old man clapped his hands, and in his
dying moment said: That's just the
promise / have been waiting for. The
blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from
all sim" Oh, the warmth, the
grandeur, the magnificence Of the
promises!
Come, also, to this Gospel well. all
We troubled. l do not suppose you
have escaped. Compare your view of
l this life at fifteen years of age with
what your view is of it at forty, or six
ty or seventy. What a great contrast
of opinion! Were you right then, or
are you right nowp Two cups placed
the other a sour cup. A cup of joy
and a cup of grief. Which has been
t the nearest to being full, and out OF
which have you the more frequently
I partaken? What a different place
Greenwood is from what it used to be
Once 1T was to you a grand city inn
provement, aid you went out on the
e pleasure excursion, and you ran laugh.
G ingly up the mound, and you criticised
in a light way the epitaph. But since
the day when you heard the bell toll a
the gate when you went in with the
9 procession, it is a sad place, and there
is a flood of rushing memories tina
e %suffuse the eye and overmaster the
heart. Oh, YOU have had
= TROUBLE, TROUBLE, TROUBLE.
God only knows how much yor
It have had. 1t is a wonder you have
e been able to live through it, 1t is
s wonder your nervous system has no
@ been shattered, and your brain has no
n reeled. Trouble, trouble. If l coulc
gather all the griefs, of all sorts, from
this great audience, and could pu
G them in one scroll, neither man no,
q angel could endure the recitation
Q Well, what do you want? Would yol
? like to have your property back again
mo" you say, as a Christian man. ..
was becoming arrogant, and l thinl
g that is why the Lord took it away.
st don't want to have my property back.
= Well, would you have your departe,
friends back again? NO." you say
d Il couldn't take the responsibility o
d bringing them from a fearless realm t.
a a realm of tears. / couldn't do it.
8 Well, then, what do you want?
d thousand voices in the audience CT,
d out: Comfort, give us comfort.
IL For that reason | have rolled away tn
n stone from the wells mouth. Come
II all ye wounded of the flock, pursued O
fe the wolves, come to the fountain wher,
u the Lords sick and bereft ones hav,
)t come.
e .'Ah," says some one, '.you are no
o old enough to understand my sorrows
y You have not been in the world as Ion!
n as have, and you can't talk to IN,
it about nv misfortunes in the time O
a old age" Well | may not have live
as long as you. but l have been a grea
deal among old people, and l know
how they feel about their failing health
and about their
DEPARTED FRIENDS,
and about the loneliness that sometime
strikes through their souls. After TIVE
persons have lived together for forty o
fifty years, and ole of them is takel
away, what desolation! | shall not for
get tie cry of the late Rev. DR.. Dewitt
d of New York, when he stood by thu
$ open grave of his beloved wife, and
e after the o~bsequics had ended, he look,
: ed down into the open place and said
t Farewell, my honored, faithful and
beloved wife. The bond that bound US
t is severed. Thou art in glory, and ]
| am here on earth. We shall meet
: again. Farewell! FAREWELL To lear
on a prop for fifty years, andthen have
it break under you! There were
only two years difference between
the death of my father and mother.
After my mothers decease, my father
used to 60 around as though looking
for something he would often get up
from n room, without any seeming
reason, and go to another room; and